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teni @fir S. R. OWEN, 0F STEWARTSVILL, MISSOURI.

` Lem/rs Para.: No. 85,026, acted December 15, 186s.

nmpRovnMeN-T 1N CHURNS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingvpart of the same.

To all whom it ma/y concern Be it known that I, S. It. OWEN, of Stewartsville,

'-in the county -of De Kalb, and State of Missouri, have ters and gures'of reference marked thereon.

Figurel, vof the drawings, is a representation of an external view of my churn, and

Figure 2 is a sectional view thereof.

y The object of my invention is to provide more elli-l cent means than have heretofore been devised for extracting butter from cream and milk.

Butter is a fatty substance enclosed in small capsules in cream or milk, and the results secured by the process called churning, are to break the caps and gather the butter thus released into compact masses.

It follows, therefore, that to produce perfect and expcditious work in churning, the entire amount of the cream or milk in the churn should receive the same amount of agitation at the same time, and if any portion of it receives fewer blows than the rest, there can- -not be a simultaneous release of butter from all the capsules, and there is danger that some portions thereof may never be broken in the process. v

My device is ,intended to secure the result above named. 4 d

The letter A, of the drawings, represents an upright wooden shaft, passing, from the bottom of the churn,'to a point about a footJ more or less, above the top thereof.

The lower end of 'shaft A sits and-rotates on a wooden pivot in the bottom of the churn, marked c.-

Letter d is a small pinion attached rmlyto the top of shaft A, as shown.

Letter B is a sleeve, adjusted to shaft A at the point represented, and circles around'the same, as hereinmer mentioned.

At the lower sidel or end of this sleeve, I connect therewith a frame, consisting of two side and one bot tom bar, as shown, which said frame' is marked E.

The letters G are sockets, axed to the sides of the churn at the points represented, and which serve as holders for the racks H next mentioned.

The racksH consist each in a Wooden4 bar, placed ilfA sockets Gr, so as to be easily removable, and they haveY respectively a series of pinsy firmly attached thereto, extending inward, as shown. Similar pins are placedthrough the. side pieces of frame E, and also through the shaft A, These pin s` are adj usted and arranged in the rack, the frame, and the shaft, in such manner, that those of the ame shall pass between those of the rack aud the shaft respectively, when in motion.

The letter K is a cogged wheel or pinion, attached irrnly to the sleeve B above rthe churn-lid; and

Letter O is'a large cogged wheel, adjusted to mesh and work in `pinions d and K, in the manner shown ;'v and Letter S is the crank and shaft attached thereto.

A My device is operated by turning the crank S. lThe large cog-wheel working with pinion K, turns the sleeve B, and, 'at the same time, the same wheelworking'firp pinionL-d, rotates the shaft A in the opposite direction.

The effect of these devices, thus operated, is to cause a simultaneous movement f all the fiuid in the churn, and, by the extraordinary agitation created, to break the caps that hold the butter, with great rapidity and success.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y The shaft A, sleeve B, and frame E, with their re- In testimony that I claim the above, I have here unto subscribed my name, in the presence of two witnesses.

' S. R. OWEN.

Witnesses J. P. SCOTT, ALFRED OHIFFs. 

